Novocastrians unite - at the Wicko! It has taken us far too long, but we’re coming to Newcastle, Australia’s 7th largest city and one of our great live music cities. We’re only in town for one show, but it is free. Come on down and help us rock the Wickham Park Hotel on Tuesday 21 October from 8pm.

Clearly time has been flying. We recently realised that we haven’t done a gig in Melbourne for a couple of years, but that’s all about to change. We’re doing one show only at Kaleide Theatre Wednesday 9 July, 7:30pm. We love Melbourne (and Melbournians), so it’d be nothing short of ace if you could join us. Tickets here or on the door.

We have just returned from Tasmania. A subsequent examination of our map of Tassie indicates that we covered 1,200 km, on our way through 4 performances in 3 busy, fabulous days. The tour was predictably exhausting and superb. If there was any doubt that the tour was going to be interesting, it was quashed when our first flight had to taxi back to the terminal (and at break-neck speed) to let an ill passenger off the plane. If we thought that it might not be cold, that was put to rest as a sharp breeze sliced its way off the ocean at Cape Grim.

We’ve been to Burnie nearly every year for more than 10 years, so it was great to catch up with Ben and Drew and the nice people at the Burnie Arts and Function Centre and Merv and Del at Glen Osborne House too.

We raced to Hobart to share the stage at The Grand Poobah with Warning Will Robinson, which was a great night. Thumbs up to Juniper and Manu and WWR. We also enjoyed some very fine late night souvlakia.